peanuts
Peanuts cause allergic reaction is more threatening than other foods. They are legumes, like soybeans, rather than a true nut. But among people with peanut allergy, 25% -50% will also react to tree nuts such as walnuts. Food and ingredients to avoid include beer nuts, goobers, arachic oil, and some hydrolyzed vegetable protein. Baked goods, sauces, and even chili can contain hidden peanut protein.
Processed Milk and Milk Products
Milk allergy is the most common food allergies in children, but 80% to overcome it. Infants may need a hypoallergenic formula or soy milk, and breastfeeding mothers sometimes need to avoid drinking milk. Milk proteins, including casein, ubiquitous in processed foods, even found in canned tuna. If you are allergic to cow’s milk, goat milk may be unsafe.
eggs
Eggs are the second most common cause of food allergies in children, although they are usually overcome this allergy, too. Read the label carefully for the noodles, mayonnaise, and baked goods. Eggs can also be found in some products.
shellfish
Allergy to shellfish most often develops in adulthood, and this is a lifelong allergy. Shrimp, crab, crawfish, and lobster – crustaceans – produce the most severe allergic reactions. Molluscs can trigger a reaction, too: clams, mussels, escargot, octopus, and squid. People allergic to shellfish should avoid steam table or the stove where the shellfish cooked in the steam can trigger a reaction.
Finned fish
Proteins in finned fish can cause severe allergic, most often from eating salmon, tuna, or halibut. If you are allergic to one type, you may react to others as well. Many ethnic restaurants use fish sauce. So Tread carefully in Thai and Chinese restaurant, and beware of Caesar dressing and Worcestershire sauce, made from anchovies. Some people can safely eat canned tuna and salmon, but not fresh fish.
How Food Allergy Begins
With the first exposure to food triggers, treat your body as something dangerous and creates immunoglobulin E antibodies in your bloodstream. You will not see the symptoms at first exposure, but your body is primed to release histamine next time. Although some food allergies are more common among children, food allergies can develop at any time in life.
